The Department of Education and Skills is currently creating an individualised database of primary school students; the Primary Online Database (POD). The POD will gather personal data and sensitive personal data about pupils, such as information about ethnic and cultural background, religion, medical conditions, students with special needs and students’ Personal Public Service Numbers (PPSN). The POD will be shared with other state bodies, including the Central Statistics Office, the Department of Social Protection, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Revenue Commissioners. Continue Reading A permanent record (or at least until you turn 30)
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Working Party publishes statement on CJEU ruling which invalidates Data Retention Directive
By Davinia Brennan on
Posted in Cyber Risk & Data Privacy
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), an independent European advisory on data protection and privacy, has published a statement in which it welcomes the ruling of the CJEU, of 8 April 2014, which invalidates the Data Retention Directive (2006/24/EC). The CJEU found that the Directive entails a wide-ranging and particularly serious interference with the fundamental rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data, and fails to sufficiently circumscribe such interference to ensure that it is limited to what is strictly necessary for the purpose of fighting serious crime, thereby leaving it too open for Member States …